Process of rendering mexican flux and crude oils available as a fuel.



0. FALKENWALDE.

ICAN FLUX AND CRUDE OILS AVAI APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1914.

- PROCESS OF RENDERING MEX LABLE AS A FUEL.

Patented Mar. 28, I916.

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OSCAR FALKENWALD or returnees, MARYLAND.

PROCESS RENDERING MEXICAN FLUX AND CRUDE OILS AVAIIiABLE AS A FUEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Fateniged M31. 28, 1916.

Application filed. July 17, 1914. Serial No. 851,565;

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OSCAR FALKENWALDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have 5 invented certain new and useful Improvement in Processes of Rendering Mexican Flux and Crude Oils Available as=a Fuel; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the.

invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to processes for rendering Mexican flux and crude oils available as a fuel. Mexican flux or crude oil has not been heretofore regarded as a desirable fuel, for various reasons, but has been used to some extent when mixed with other domestic'oils to render the crude oil more fluid. When thus adulterated the product is called Mexican fuel oil. Analysis of the Mexican flux or crude oil shows that it contains naphtha, illuminatory oil, lubrieating oil, tar and residuum in varying proportions. .In carrying out my invention, I mix a certain quantity of hot water at a temperature from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit with the Mexican flux or crude oil and feed the Naphtha u 10. 0%

Ilhiminatory oil 60.0%

Lubricating oil -i. 15.5% Tar and residuum 14.5%

The chemical characteristics of the Mexican flux may be briefly referred toas fol lows:

Specific gravity at 60 F 0. 9854.. Baum gravity "12. 1. l Pound per gallon-at 60F 8.209.

Flash point, open cup 17l F. Flash point, closed cup 7 5 F:

Fire test i ';252 F. Specific viscosity lo l/50 C. Fixed carbon-. 9. O0. Cold test"; 4.0 F.

B. T. U. per pound 18,088.

B. T. U. per gallon at F 148, 484.

The relative proportions of water and flux are approximately: water, 1 part, and Mexican flux, 2 parts.

The figure of the drawing shows an apparatus"for performing the process.

The water is usually fed-through a needle valve structure A, into andthrouglr a tube B from out of which tube it passes into the heating chamber C, traveling through the heating chamber C, and a pipe connection D, into a mixing chamber E, where it is mixed with the Mexican flux or crude oil residue. The Mexican flux or crude oil residue is fed into the mixing chamber E I through a needle valve structure "F, by the regulation of which the'quantity of Mexican flux or oil residue entering the mixing chamber is regulated. The emulsion, which is formed of the heated-Water and Mexican fluxor crude oil residue, passes out of the mixing chamber E, through a burner G for burning. The burner G is positioned directly beneath the water heating compartment C, so that the burning of the emulsion will heat the water within the chamber C to the desired temperature. The water heat- 1 ing compartment C has a pair of tubes H extending upwardly therein, which tubes communicate with the exterior of the burner and interior of the water heating chamber. 90.

from the water heating chamber C and also the overflow of water, when the pressure within the chamber exceeds acertain degree. These tubes eliminate the liability of the passage of steam through the pipe D and 2. A process ofrendering Mexican flux or Mexican crude oil available as a'fuel which consists in first heating water to a temperature of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, feeding Mexican flux-or crude oil and the hot water to a common point,'mixing the same to form an emulsion, and leading the emulsion to a burner.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR FALKENlVALDE.

'lVitnesses I \VM. TAYLOR, Jr., JOHN T. FADDY. 

